David Todd: 22 books

The financial condition of the U.S.A. resembles a sinking ship. Excess of spending over revenues as far as can reasonably be predicted. Debt being piled up year after year. Interest payments poised to soar when the unsustainably low rates of 2012 return to normal levels. At the helm of this...

In the professions, career advancement should not be left to random occurrences in the workplace. Purposeful steps can be taken to make sure that a person doesn't stagnate in the same position. With planning and purpose, one can move through various steps in a career without interruption, and...

The United States is rich in documents, many which remain in obscurity, but which contain valuable information about the formation of this nation, while at the same time contain lessons for where we are right now. In Documenting America,a number of these documents are quoted in large blocks, the importance...

The United States is rich in documents, many which remain in obscurity, but which contain valuable information about the formation of this nation, while at the same time contain lessons for where we are right now. In Documenting America,a number of these documents are quoted in large blocks, the importance...

Warren Derrill is a young CIA agent, puzzled by his new, temporary assignment: Follow fellow agent Sharon Williams Fonseca while she tours Athens, Greece with her family, and report on her movements. Is she a rogue agent? If so, his assignment is all the more puzzling as he isn't trained for...

[Short Story; 1850 words] Thirteen year old Danny Tompkins is at the end his first week of scout camp, waiting for his family to arrive to pick him up. They are very late. He wins a special award, but they aren't there to see it. At last his dad arrives. On the drive home he learns his mom is much,...

Denise Benfield is dealing with her mother's imminent death from cancer, when Mike Pelton shows up at the door, saying he was an old friend of her mother's, hasn't seen her in forty years, and wondered what has happened to her. She lets him in, and learns that it was more than just...

A routine traffic stop in Providence, Rhode Island results in a high speed chase, and the suspect fleeing on foot in neighboring Cranston. The investigation determines that Sharon Williams Fonseca, by all appearances an average housewife and grandmother, helped him get away. Police from both Providence...

Luke, the beloved physician, returns to Israel to write a massive biography of Jesus. He hires a Jewish assistant, Augustus, from a family that had embraced Roman ways, to help him as a researcher, secretary, and scribe. Luke's work is opposed by both the Roman government and the Jewish authorities....

The book of the Revelation, the last book of the New Testament, has fascinated readers for two millennia—and confused them. Is it prophecy, or allegory? A man's creation, or the inspired word of God? What does it mean? And how did John write it? He was on Patmos "for the gospel." The church...

Daniel Tompkins visits the neighborhood he grew up in, then walks to his old junior high school. As he did many years ago, he finds a stone on the sidewalk and kicks it down the road. What was the fascination with kicking stones? He muses on the reasons for this as he relives the memories. They were...

Daniel Tompkins tackles an assignment for his writing group, to write a short memoir about a critical event in his life. He decides to again write about the death of his mother, but to focus on what his dad went through on the weekend of intense activity. He settles on an event that typified his memories:...

“Is there in all republics this inherent and fatal weakness? Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?”As president Lincoln told Congress his war aims at the start of the Civil War, this statement leaps off...

Norman D Gutter graduates with his civil engineering degree, and takes a job with I.C.E. Engineering in far away Appleville. Full of great hopes to make a difference in the world, he quickly encounters the reality of having to work with strange people in a semi-disfunctional consulting engineering...